The boffins from Xbox have talked about the features due “in about a week” on Xbox Live. Highlights: Background downloading, a marketplace revamp (better categories), and some tweaks to general UI stuff. Go read about it at Joystiq. xbox 360, xbox live tags: Gadgets, Games

It’s not Update Rollup 3, but it’s at least a cumulative update for Update Rollup 2. Auto Updates users may have this already, but if not, there’s a new list of fixes in it. As an Aussie Digital TV user, none of the fixes reminded me of any past experiences (which is good), and it [...]

The most recent IE Developer Toolbar beta (something you’d have installed yourself, it doesn’t come with IE 7) is fatal to poor little IE7 beta 2! When IE is started, any attempt to use the UI results in it just sitting there hanging, chewing 100% (or 100%/numprocs) CPU time (that’s IEXPLORE.EXE * 32, if you’re [...]